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ArticleThorax2020

Impact of banning smoking in cars with children on exposure to second-hand smoke: a natural experiment in England and Scotland.

Anthony A Laverty, Thomas Hone, Eszter P Vamos, Philip E Anyanwu, David Taylor-Robinson, Frank de Vocht, Christopher Millett, Nicholas S Hopkinson

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Article in Thorax, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Development of the Respiratory System During Adolescence.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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  2. Are People More Likely to Vape or Smoke Indoors? A Population Survey of Adults in England.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024
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  5. Air Pollution inside Vehicles: Making a Bad Situation Worse.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  8. Sources of Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Their Associations With Serum Cotinine Levels Among US Children and Adolescents.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023
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  10. Inequalities in Smoking and Quitting-Related Outcomes Among Adults With and Without Children in the Household 2013-2019: A Population Survey in England.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Anthony A LavertyPublic Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK a.laverty@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-1318-8439
Thomas HonePublic Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Eszter P VamosPublic Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Philip E AnyanwuGlobal Digital Health Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
David Taylor-RobinsonDepartment of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Frank de VochtPopulation Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Christopher MillettPublic Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Nicholas S HopkinsonNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3235-0454

Funding

Department of Health RP_2014-04-032Medical Research Council G0802448Medical Research Council MR/P008577/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

England banned smoking in cars carrying children in 2015 and Scotland in 2016. We used survey data from 3 years for both countries (N

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Child WelfareSurveys and QuestionnairesAdolescentAutomobilesChildEnglandFemaleHumansMaleScotlandSmoke-Free PolicySmoking PreventionTobacco Smoke PollutionTobacco Smoke Pollutionsmoking cessationtobacco and the lung

Identifiers

PMID31988266
PMCPMC7231450

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